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...watched legal battle with Google (GOOG) over technology for self-driving cars is a top concern. In that case, Google sued Uber after the ride-hailing service poached a top executive. Data practices and questions over dri...

...on at the time. Some activists were even more pointed: They wanted CEO Marissa Mayer, who was brought on from Google to engineer a turnaround, out. After Starboard threatened a proxy fight, Yahoo reached a deal to add fo...

.... But in many ways, these firms are the exception that proves the rule, because they play by different rules. Google’s Class B shares have 10 times the voting power of normal shares, enabling the founders, Larry Page and...

...struggle to look back on her tenure as positively as she did in her email. When Mayer first joined Yahoo from Google ( googl ) , hopes were high that the new CEO would be able to restore Yahoo back to its former glory. M...

...gulators. At the same time, Uber got in a highly public legal battle with Waymo, the self-driving-car unit of Google’s parent company, Alphabet, over alleged theft of intellectual property. Uber fired the head of that pr...

...and WhatsApp’s founders Brian Acton and Jan Koum. But now, that role has been delegated to firms like Oracle, Google and Facebook, Chiagouris said. “The (Yahoo) training ground is no longer,” he said. October 2012: Buys ...

...disclosure. Last year the firm began pushing nine gender equity proposals and saw decent results–Facebook and Google remain the two companies that have yet to respond, which Lamb says has a lot to do with the fact that t...

...he CEO job to Rick Osterloh, but the candidate backed out at the last minute to return to his former employer Google, Bloomberg reported at the time. The lack of a backup plan highlighted a key weakness at DocuSign. “Goo...

...ort outlining the gender and ethnic makeup of its employees. A vast majority of Alphabet's employees work for Google. But the report doesn't outline gender pay disparities. Sixty-nine percent of the company's global empl...

... companies. "Snap went further than anybody since the twenties and so that has implications," Bertsch noted. "Google...managed to get the practice more or less accepted in the market." According to Charles Elson, a panel...

...am was asked to pursue her great white whale: a personalized search product that could leapfrog Apple’s Siri, Google’s Assistant and Microsoft’s Cortana. Little came of the effort. Yahoo did acquire advertising technolog...

...n annual salary of $1 a year. He hardly needs the salary: Forbes estimates the net worth of the co-founder of Google at $45 billion.
The Equilar ranking also does not include billionaire hedge fund managers like Paul Si...

...yed a role in recent changes at Wells Fargo and at a Tennessee hospital network operator. An attempt to force Google to disclose more information about its lobbying efforts failed in 2014. Nappier was also an early advoc...

...obably learn more doing it. A lot of people said to me, "Why would you ever leave Google? Why would you leave Google and your reputation at Google to go do something like AOL?" But I thought about it the opposite way, wh...

...e the car industry is ripe for disruption, which is why they are so high on companies like Tesla, Apple , and Google. But a step-by-step transition into the future is much more likely than an overnight disruption. That i...

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Although ISS has not identified any major issues regarding the structure of Google's executive compensation in past years, the magnitude of total pay provided to certain executives, paired with a lack of performance criteria and compelling rationale, raises significant concerns.